Example sentences for: soft-spoken

How can you use “soft-spoken” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He described Hazmi as a soft-spoken Saudi student who used to appear at the mosque with a companion but who did not have a large circle of friends.

  • But the soft-spoken secretary-general gave away nothing and got much.

  • Where Boutros-Ghali was highhanded and arrogant, Annan is gentle, soft-spoken, calm.

  • From his offices in Koreatown, Iwasaki, a soft-spoken former O'Melveny & Myers attorney, quietly engineered a merger between a much smaller Legal Aid Society of Long Beach and his program, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.

  • This is sure-fire material, and Lee structures it deftly, leaving us in the dark until the end as to why Jake--a manifestly decent, soft-spoken, cagey fellow, gorgeously underplayed by Washington--ended up in prison in the first place.


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